Dogs found a dead jogger in a forest in Trentino.
Investigators suspect the man was killed by a bear.
Caldes – The body of a jogger has been discovered in a forest in northern Italy.
He might have been killed by a bear.
The police and forest rangers, who have started the investigation, are investigating this suspicion.
The man started on Wednesday (April 5) in South Tyrol's neighboring province of Trentino for a run.
When the 26-year-old did not return, his partner sounded the alarm.
The police launched a search operation on Mount Peller, including with search dogs and drones.
Around 3:00 a.m. on Thursday night, dogs finally tracked down the jogger.
Jogger killed by bear in Trentino?
The body showed serious injuries
The body lay in a forest in Caldes in the Val di Sole not far from the Grum Alm, reports
Südtirol News
.
The body had multiple injuries, some of them serious.
An attack by a wild animal was one of the possible causes of death.
The investigators do not rule out that the 26-year-old was a bear victim, writes the
Ansa
news agency .
Bear attacks are not uncommon in northern Italy.
In South Tyrol, a young man was suddenly attacked while walking.
Bears have also been sighted in Trentino recently.
Locals told L'Adige
newspaper
that there have been several attacks on livestock over the past month.
At the beginning of March, not far from Caldes, a man was attacked by a bear and injured his head and arm.
A brown bear has also been spotted in Bavaria.
South Tyrol: Autopsy should clarify whether Jogger was killed by a bear
The investigators in the current case are hoping for information through an autopsy.
Forensic pathologists are to determine whether an attack led to the death of the jogger.
It cannot be ruled out that the man died for other reasons and that the wild animal inflicted the injuries on him after death.
Also in Slovakia, a jogger was attacked by a bear on a hiking trail.
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